In the 1950s, US scientists planned to use nuclear bombs to blast a harbor on the Alaskan coast: Project Chariot, a Cold War scheme to reshape the map with atomic blastsIn 1958, the US proposed Project Chariot to blast a harbor in Alaska. This plan was part of Operation Plowshare, seeking peaceful nuclear e...
20 Jul, 2026, 05.57 PM IST
Can thickening Arctic ice with seawater slow its decline? Successful trial faces major hurdlesScientists tested a method to thicken Arctic sea ice by pumping seawater. This process created a thicker and more reflective ice layer duri...
11 Jul, 2026, 07.29 AM IST
The Arctic is sitting on a 63-billion-ton carbon secret, and scientists are concernedBeneath the Arctic’s frozen surface lies a hidden carbon reserve of nearly 63 billion tons. As rising temperatures thaw ancient permafrost,...
22 Jun, 2026, 10.30 PM IST
‘Zombie Worm’ awakens after 24,000 years: Scientists revive a frozen worm that can survive freezing, starvation and even reproduce without partner‘Zombie Worm’ revived by scientists: A 24,000-year-old microscopic worm, a bdelloid rotifer, has been revived from Siberian permafrost, ast...
13 May, 2026, 04.34 PM IST
What Scientists Found Inside a Cave Beneath Greenland’s Ice Is Raising New Climate QuestionsAncient Arctic caves hold secrets of a warmer past. Mineral deposits show the region was once free of permafrost, experiencing much higher ...
05 Mar, 2026, 04.38 PM IST
Hidden Climate Trigger? What Scientists Found Beneath Our SoilVast carbon reserves lie hidden beneath farms, forests, and frozen Arctic soil. These underground stores, built over centuries, are now und...
02 Mar, 2026, 03.17 PM IST
Is the Ground Beneath Us Releasing More Carbon Than We Think?Beneath American soil, vast carbon reserves are stored. These underground stores, built over centuries and millennia, are now a focus for s...
28 Feb, 2026, 04.59 PM IST
From Ice to Green: How Rising Temperatures Are Reshaping the ArcticThe Arctic is changing. Once a land of snow and ice, it is now turning green. Warmer temperatures are causing plants to grow more. Shrubs a...
25 Feb, 2026, 03.19 PM IST
What is Mammothpox? Why WHO fears this deadly ancient virus could spark the next pandemicWorld Health Organization is preparing for future pandemics. It tested global readiness with 'Exercise Polaris'. The exercise simulated an ...
15 Apr, 2025, 07.56 PM IST
Zombie viruses may awaken by 2030 after 50,000 years of dormancy due to global warming: ResearchAs the Earth warms and ancient permafrost thaws, dormant pathogens pose a potential threat to public health. French virologist Jean-Michel ...
11 Oct, 2023, 03.14 PM IST
How climate change could expose new epidemicsThe Covid-19 pandemic that has swept the globe and claimed over 760,000 lives so far almost certainly came from a wild bat, highlighting th...
16 Aug, 2020, 09.35 AM IST
Climate change makes freak Siberian heat 600 times likelierInternational scientists released a study Wednesday that found the greenhouse effect multiplied the chance of the region's prolonged heat b...
16 Jul, 2020, 03.35 PM IST
Putin has signed climate pact, but is warming up to melting of ArcticVladimir Putin signed the Paris Accord on climate change this year. But as the Barents Sea and the Arctic thaw faster, Russia is gearing up...
26 Sep, 2019, 11.12 PM IST
3-5°C temperature rise is now ‘locked-in’ for the ArcticEven if the world were to cut emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, winter temperatures in the Arctic would rise 3-5°C by 2050 and 5-...
14 Mar, 2019, 08.13 AM IST
- Permafrost carbon leak could peak within a few decades: Study
Washington, Aug 19 (IANS) Arctic permafrost's expected gradual thawing due to climate change and the associated influx of greenhouse gases ...
19 Aug, 2018, 02.12 PM IST
- Arctic permafrost may unleash carbon within decades: NASA
Washington, March 6 (IANS) Permafrost in the coldest northern Arctic -- formerly thought to be at least temporarily shielded from global wa...
06 Mar, 2018, 11.42 AM IST
Permafrost thawing below shallow Arctic lakes: StudyA regime shift in lake ice is leading to permafrost thawing below shallow Arctic lakes as a result of changing winter climate, a new study ...
20 Jun, 2016, 02.11 PM IST